Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis